Comments on: Birmingham Remembers Matthew Boulton http://www.davidnikel.org.uk/blog/2009/08/birmingham-remembers-matthew-boulton A Liberal Democrat campaigner in Birmingham Ladywood Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:23:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jock Coats http://www.davidnikel.org.uk/blog/2009/08/birmingham-remembers-matthew-boulton/comment-page-1#comment-171 Jock Coats Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:12:56 +0000 http://www.davidnikel.org.uk/?p=399#comment-171 On the downside, Boulton and Watt are often used as a good example of how intellectual property and state granted privilege - his patent on the steam engine - stifled innovation and slowed the pace of technological change: For example in the <a href="http://www.dklevine.com/papers/imbookfinal02.pdf" rel="nofollow">introduction (pdf)</a> to the recent book <a href="http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm" rel="nofollow">"Against Intellectual Monopoly"</a>. On the downside, Boulton and Watt are often used as a good example of how intellectual property and state granted privilege – his patent on the steam engine – stifled innovation and slowed the pace of technological change:

For example in the introduction (pdf) to the recent book “Against Intellectual Monopoly”.

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